{"id":29761,"date":"2018-04-20T22:38:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T22:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2018\/04\/20\/us-weighs-keeping-carrier-strike-group-in-europe-as-a-check-on-russia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:28:29","slug":"us-weighs-keeping-carrier-strike-group-in-europe-as-a-check-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2018\/04\/20\/us-weighs-keeping-carrier-strike-group-in-europe-as-a-check-on-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"US weighs keeping carrier strike group in Europe as a check on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015In a break with recent history, the U.S. military is weighing whether to withhold the Truman Carrier Strike Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/surface-navy-association\/2016\/12\/28\/middle-east-now-without-a-us-carrier\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">from deploying to the Middle East<\/a>, opting instead to keep the carrier in the Mediterranean and the European theater. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three defense officials with knowledge of the deliberations said the move would be a response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2018\/01\/15\/russia-and-us-engage-in-military-base-race-in-syria\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" target=\"_blank\">Russian activities in the region<\/a> and aligns with the new National Defense Strategy that calls on the military to be less operationally predictable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No decision has been made yet, but the move is \u201cunder discussion,\u201d according to one defense official, who spoke on background to discuss internal deliberations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keeping the Norfolk, Virginia-based Truman in Europe, forgoing a trip through the Suez Canal and into U.S. Central Command territory, would be a major departure from the normal rotational presence missions the Navy has conducted since Operation Desert Storm, in which a trip through \u201cThe Ditch\u201d is almost a foregone conclusion. But the move would track with a renewed focus on great power competition as the military seeks new ways to employ its forces to meet what it sees as a rising challenge from Russia and China. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/breaking-news\/2018\/01\/19\/national-defense-strategy-released-with-clear-priority-stay-ahead-of-russia-and-china\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Year_Photos1_Trump_Mattis.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">National Defense Strategy released with clear priority: Stay ahead of Russia and China<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The National Defense Strategy outlines a world where great power competition, not terrorism, is the driving factor for the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plan, which is being weighed at the highest levels of the military, would serve both to reassure allies nervous about what they perceive as an increasingly assertive Russian presence in the region and would free up other U.S. assets to perform patrols in hot spots such as the Baltic and the Black Sea, said Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain and analyst with the Center for a New American Security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNothing says \u2018I love you\u2019 quite like a carrier,\u201d Hendrix said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would also serve as an imposing reminder of President Donald Trump\u2019s warning to Syrian President Bashar Assad that any further use of chemical weapons against civilian populations in Syria would be met with renewed strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Truman entered U.S. 6th Fleet this week after departing Norfolk on April 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A dedicated Europe deployment for a carrier strike group would be remarkable but U.S. carriers have been more active in the Mediterranean in recent months. Truman conducted strikes on the Islamic State group in Syria from the Mediterranean Sea during its 2016 deployment, as did the George H.W. Bush in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The military has been increasingly willing to stomach gaps in carrier presence in the Arabian Gulf and the surrounding region. Beginning in 2015, the Gulf has intermittently been without a carrier strike group for months at a time as land-based aircraft have backfilled the strikes on ISIS targets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keeping a carrier close to Russian strategic interests also tracks closely with the Defense Department\u2019s recently released National Defense Strategy that declared that \u201cinter-state strategic competition, not terrorism, is now the primary concern in U.S. national security.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>\u2018No way to run a navy\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, in testimony April 12 before the House Armed Services Committee, hinted that his department was looking to shake up how it employed its carrier strike groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years the Navy saw its rotational deployments skyrocket from six months to as many as 10 months as it met onerous presence demands for combatant commanders, including Mattis, who as the head of CENTCOM employed two carriers in the Arabian Gulf between 2011 and 2013. That requirement sent the Navy spiraling into a readiness ditch that it has struggled to dig out of ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, Mattis is looking at ways to move away from the standard carrier presence rotations and into a less rigid model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe way you do this is we ensure that preparation for great power competition drives not simply a rotational schedule that allows me to tell you, three years from now, which aircraft carrier will be where in the world,\u201d Mattis told lawmakers. \u201cThat\u2019s a great way to run a shipping line. It\u2019s no way to run a navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mattis said the schedules for carriers were going to be less regimented and could include shorter deployments that take less of a toll on the big decks and their escort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen we send them out, it may be for a shorter deployment. There will be three carriers in the South China Sea today, and then, two weeks from now, there\u2019s only one there, and two of them are in the Indian Ocean,\u201d Mattis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey\u2019ll be home at the end of a 90-day deployment. They will not have spent eight months at sea, and we are going to have a force more ready to surge and deal with the high-end warfare as a result, without breaking the families, the maintenance cycles \u2015 we\u2019ll actually enhance the training time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Military Times\u2019 Pentagon reporter Tara Copp contributed to the reporting of this story.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four defense officials with knowledge of the deliberations said the move would be a response to Russian activities in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":66188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":16,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":{"7":{"categories":["your-navy","news","daily-news-roundup","newsletters"],"primary_category":"your-navy"}}},"categories":[160,46,11,16,36],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3361],"class_list":["post-29761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-europe","category-global","category-naval","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"RK7ZECDYSRA7BJ6KIYXBXOLRVQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/naval\/2018\/04\/20\/us-weighs-keeping-carrier-strike-group-in-europe-as-a-check-on-russia\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US weighs keeping carrier strike group in Europe as a check on Russia - Defense News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Four defense officials with knowledge of the deliberations said the move would be a response to Russian activities in the region.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"US weighs keeping carrier strike group in Europe as a check on Russia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Four defense officials with knowledge of the deliberations said the move would be a response to Russian activities in the region.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2018\/04\/20\/us-weighs-keeping-carrier-strike-group-in-europe-as-a-check-on-russia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Defense News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-20T22:38:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-07T22:28:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"David B. 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